news Breaking: Microsoft To Purchase LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion

[Atta]

Microsoft is purchasing professional social-networking site LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, company officials announced today. Microsoft will pay $196 per share for the company acquisition.

LinkedIn, a Mountain View California-based company founded in 2002 has approximately 433 millions users as per the first quarter of 2016. The company provides a professional networking platform for finding professionals ans work connections, sharing resumes and finding new job posts.

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner will remain the CEO of social-networking site, and will report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The move fits in with Microsoft’s growing push to focus more on business customers.

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[1NiteStand]

cool... go ms!

 

[Recons.Com]

The way domain investors read this news:

"I need to buy few verb+ed suffix + in domains and wait till I get 6 to 10 figure offer for it".

 

[Haroon Basha]

It seems ultimately only three companies will be ruling the world: GOOGLE, FACEBOOK and MICROSOFT.

 

[1NiteStand]

What about BlackBerry/RIM?

 

[1NiteStand]

haha just kidding, but how about Apple? Yahoo?

 

[Haroon Basha]

What about BlackBerry/RIM?

They are as good as dead!

 

[Haroon Basha]

haha just kidding, but how about Apple? Yahoo?

Any of the three big sharks (Google, Facebook and Microsoft) will buy Apple also one day.

 

[Recons.Com]

Market caps:

Apple $535 Bn
Google $494 Bn
Microsoft $394 Bn
Facebook $327 Bn
Berkshire Hathaway $349 Bn
Exxon $376 Bn

 

[ProDomanico]

M/i/c/r/o/l/i/n/k/e/d/i/n.com & m/i/c/r/o/l/i/n/k/e/d.in
Crazy is domaining..........

 

[Haroon Basha]

"Apple $535 Bn"
We can expect a spectacular drop in share prices of Apple, within two years.

 

[NetworkPearl]

Apple is the best grest shark and I don't think anyone will by Apple.Apple doesn't even need to buy any company,they're doing the best but imo they should buy yahoo.

 

[Haroon Basha]

M/i/c/r/o/l/i/n/k/e/d/i/n.com & m/i/c/r/o/l/i/n/k/e/d.in
Crazy is domaining..........

microsoftlinked .in

 

[Soofi]

Lets hope they dont break LinkedIn now :D

 

[Shea]

Wow, its funny that Bing, my personal least liked search engine, has purchased my personal least liked social network... That's a double negative.

 

[namerav]

Good deal for Microsoft.

 

[indam]

Once you go into corporate mentality, you act like a corporation. You buy so you seem bigger and bigger... while accumulating crap

 

[1NiteStand]

One ring to rule them all

 

[Dominic Belley]

I own MSFT stocks. I was so pissed yesterday when I read that. What a waste of money, terrible for investors. We'll never see our money back or at least before a very very long time.

 

[DNScholar]